Equality Quotes

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.